Without a doubt there has been an absurd amount of historical events that have impacted America in many ways. A big way that these historical events end up happening in the first place is because of speeches that people have given, for example one of them being John F. Kennedy’s speeches. He has had a variety of speeches and he was a really big voice in history, whenever he spoke everyone would listen because he was just that type of guy that influences everyone. In most of his speeches whether he was aware of it or not he used rhetorical devices to get whatever point he was trying to get across to the people. In John F. Kennedy’s Greater Houston Ministerial Association speech, he used, Amplification, Anaphora, and Antimetabole to establish
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Kennedys, Greater Houston Ministerial Association Kennedy used rhetorical devices in order to convey the point that he is trying to get across to public about his ideas and his morals. During his speech he talked about how it’s not fair that America has a certain religion that everyone follows, he wants there to be a freedom on religion and how you don’t have to be a religion if you don’t want to. Kennedy used different types of rhetorical devices such as Amplification, Anaphora, and Antimetabole. He uses amplification to list different types of religion that people could be, but aren’t allowed to be if they want to run for president. He uses this device because it helps the people understand the problem that he is trying to get rid of and the audience can really relate to it and that will help him with the people. He also uses Anaphora which helps the people understand about the Catholics because it just keeps on mentioning them. And lastly he uses Antimetabole to really express his feeling toward loyalty. In paragraph 7 of John F. Kennedys Greater Houston ministerial Association he says “In other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew--or a Quaker--or a Unitarian--or a Baptist.” This would be an example of amplification because he is listing the different types of religions to get his point across that anybody can be whatever religion they
Kennedys, Greater Houston Ministerial Association Kennedy used rhetorical devices in order to convey the point that he is trying to get across to public about his ideas and his morals. During his speech he talked about how it’s not fair that America has a certain religion that everyone follows, he wants there to be a freedom on religion and how you don’t have to be a religion if you don’t want to. Kennedy used different types of rhetorical devices such as Amplification, Anaphora, and Antimetabole. He uses amplification to list different types of religion that people could be, but aren’t allowed to be if they want to run for president. He uses this device because it helps the people understand the problem that he is trying to get rid of and the audience can really relate to it and that will help him with the people. He also uses Anaphora which helps the people understand about the Catholics because it just keeps on mentioning them. And lastly he uses Antimetabole to really express his feeling toward loyalty. In paragraph 7 of John F. Kennedys Greater Houston ministerial Association he says “In other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew--or a Quaker--or a Unitarian--or a Baptist.” This would be an example of amplification because he is listing the different types of religions to get his point across that anybody can be whatever religion they